Maryland Gets $2.3M EPA Grant To Combat Pollution, Provide Clean Drinking Water

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maryland is getting a astir $2.3 cardinal assistance from the Environmental Protection Agency to trim contamination successful the state’s waterways and supply residents with cleaner drinking water.

The $2,272,200 assistance was awarded to the Maryland Department of Environment done the EPA’s Nonpoint Source Implementation Grant Program. The programme aims to curb nonpoint root pollution, which happens erstwhile runoff from rainfall oregon snowfall collects pollutants and contaminants and carries them into streams, rivers, lakes and different waterways.

Keeping runoff contamination astatine bay is key, according to the EPA, since seasonal and rain-dependent streams lend to the drinking h2o for one-third of Americans.

“With this funding, EPA supports the preservation and extortion of Maryland’s h2o resources for communities passim the state,” said Diana Esher, acting determination head for the EPA’s Mid-Atlantic region. “By moving successful concern with Maryland, we tin trim nonpoint root contamination and assistance guarantee that each Maryland residents person cleanable water.”

CBS Baltimore Staff